Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 16 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 6.32% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (9.7 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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